Concerns… PV: Mikaela

As the intern got ready to leave Jay alone in peace (finally) she spoke to someone else in the room, along the lines of: "she's your problem now" and with an annoyed huff Jay rolled her eyes "Uh she's your problem now, bitch I'm not anyone's problem" she hissed to herself.

As the door shut as the last intern walked out Jay heard someone clear their throat to announce their presence and she was about to retort to it with a snappy remark when she heard who exactly was there. And it surprised her.

"You look like crap, J."

MIKAELA?!

Snapping her neck around quickly to look at her friend, enough for her neck to pop painfully, Jay's eyes went wide as she saw none other then Mikaela Hendricks standing in the Hospital Wing. After the shock passed of seeing her here Jay folded her arms and scowled. "Well good afternoon to you too and I don't just look like shit, I feel like shit" she muttered.

And I have no idea how to figure myself out, it really does feel pretty shit to be like that, especially right now

Shaking off her thoughts Jay looked at Mikaela with a grin"What the fuck are you doing here?" she asked jokingly, she thought that once the other intern had left Jay would be left alone in here to be in peace and maybe get a wink of sleep, something that she hadn't had in the past week, but she would much prefer Mikaela being here then another random person or the nurse herself. At least Mikaela was actually interesting and not an adult who scolded you for everything you did.

"Well thank Athena its you instead of anyone else" she grumbled, sitting up "I don't think I could have handled another one of-" she gestured to the door and flipped it off even though the intern was long gone, she still enjoyed the satisfaction of it "those rude idiots " she muttered under her breath to herself.

Noticing the absence of pattering paws that meant Nacho was in the room, Jay looked around and saw to her horror, that satanic cat licking Nacho. Jay hated that cat. She really did. That cat had tried to claw her back in the Leaky Cauldron while she was TRYING to enjoy a perfectly good coffee until that damn cat had ruined it.

She tried to stand up but immediately felt dizzy and instead, opted to yell at the black cat "Oi get the hell away from my ferret!" The cat jumped and she could see the back fur stand up on end and he hissed at her in anger. Jay then looked at Nacho who scurried away and towards Jay and curled up next to her, visibly quite scared of the shadowy cat.

Being the lovely mature person she was, Jay made a face and stuck her tongue out at Neko who hissed back at her. With a malicious grin Jay turned back to him and hissed even louder, but her hissing was more like a snake then a cat.

"Your cat is really damn weird" Jay grumbled to Mikaela "He comes near Nacho one more time so help me I will turn him into a flying cat" how that would be done, could be left up to Mikaela and whoever had heard her yelling.

Jay glared back at the black cat, who was now cosplaying as a burnt loaf with eyes. Really, Jay wouldn't hurt the cat, scare him a bit sure but she wouldn't hurt him. He was apparently precious to Mikaela and Mikaela classified as Jay's friend. He also did look pretty cute too so that might be another factor but Jay would never admit that to anyone.

"I never knew you were an intern" she said, drifting away from the subject of cats "Do you take an interest in healing or is it just for fun?" Jay asked, since she was a part of the Astronomy Internship group mainly for the to being able to use the larger telescopes and more precise pieces of machinery part but also because her mum is an Astrologist.

Jay had been meaning to ask Professor McCoire to remove her from the list but had never gotten around to it. She always forgot about it until after astronomy class. Now that she was sitting up the sun was in her face but she didn't want to lie down so she turned her back on the sunshine as she looked up at Mikaela.

"I haven't seen you for weeks, how have you been holding up?" Jay remembered she had looked pretty cheerful back at the Leaky Cauldron but then again, that was a month ago and Jay knew better then anyone that quite a lot could change in just a month

When Jay heard that gossip that the interns spread, she laughed out loud and almost immediately broke into a hacking cough, covering her mouth with her elbow so she didn’t get Mikaela sick.

“I was laughing” she muttered, slightly annoyed by her inability to laugh but it wasn’t too bad. That was the first time she had laughed in… a month or two.

Now that’s just depressing

She thought bitterly, as Mikaela continued to talk about the interesting gossip of the hospital wing interns or whatever they called themselves. The healing interns? Healers in training?

Jay didn’t even try to think of any more names, her brain had started to ache, whether that was from the name finding for a gossip group of healers, another migraine coming on or her concussion doing something she didn’t know.

When Jay looked up from her stupidly deep thought on why her head was hurting, she saw Mikaela was holding out a glass of tinted red water and Jay hesitantly reached her hand out and took it from her.

Looking down at it, Jay swished the water around a bit and frowned, eyeing it like it might bite her before looking up at Mikaela, ”what the fuck is this?” she asked, looking down at it again, trying to remember what healing potions she had learned in potions. Even though she hated it was one of her best subjects. For some reason.

Now that she was looking at the red hue she noticed it might be the Pepperup Potion. After all that one was used to cure non magical illnesses like the flu, what Jay had.

Or it’s a Babbling Beverage, I know quite a few people who would want me to stop talking properly ELLIOTNORIKO cough cough

She giggled to herself a little bit at that when she glanced back to Mikaela "here, drink it. Don't ask what it is, and please try not to throw it up. If you throw it up, you'll have to drink it again, and I'll give it to you raw." With another frown at the water she swirled it around in the glass cup again ”well too late for that” she mumbled, bringing the glass up to the light.

Shrugging, Jay brought it down and made a thumbs up to Mikaela with one hand ”bottoms up” she grinned, lifting the glass and drinking all of it quickly and without fuss.

When she finished, Jay set the glass on the side table and looked up at Mikaela expectantly ”was that supposed to do something? she grinned ”was it meant to taste bad?”

Jay had always had a very good resistance to the sharp tastes of medicine and their effects, one time in school she had gotten sick and had been given medication that had tasted like nothing but the nurse seemed quite surprised that a kid in year three could drink it.

”I am curious though,” she asked, looking at the glass she had set on the table ”what did I just drink?” Jay had a good idea of what it was but wanted to know for sure in case she died. Then she knew who to haunt.

Jay hated being treated like a patient, if it was up to her she would have just made the Pepperup Potion herself and taken some painkillers, she would have been fine! Jay knew how to take care of herself.

Now I just sound like a delusional old lady

Ever since she was a kid she hated when Sunny told her she had to stay in bed and rest. She always felt so useless when that happened but now that feeling followed her everywhere. She had never compared it to her past experiences with being sick, but now she was allowing herself to think about her mum, she was noticing more and more.

Her main worry was what she was going to do about the Christmas holidays. Jay didn’t want to go home nor did she want to stay at Hogwarts but those were really her only two options. Jay refused to put more weight on Eric, Andrea or Zaynab.

Zaynab’s parents hated her anyways so she was no longer an option but Jay didn’t even know if her three muggle friends still liked her. She couldn’t communicate with them at all and if she wanted to see them she would have to stay with her mum. Jay didn’t want to go back to Sunny because the whole place felt sad, Sunny avoided her and even if they did talk it was just along the lines of ‘dinner is on the counter’ and Jay hated it. It made her feel all wrong and regretful but that wasn’t it. She had no idea what it directly what the feeling was but she hated it.

Looks like I’m going home, Hogwarts is going to be so boring over the holidays I might just DIE of boredom

And even if she snuck out to Hogsmead every day that would get old very fast and then Jay would spend most of her holidays rotting in her bed, trying to catch up on desperately needed sleep.

Not that she would catch a wink of sleep but she could always try.

When Mikaela shrugged and didn't answer, Jay was tempted to throw something at her, of course she didn't and instead opted for looking very betrayed. After all Mikaela had just given her a potion and then AFTER Jay drank it, wasn't answering her question on what it was.

I still think it's Pepperup Potion though...

Jay rolled her eyes, looking from the empty glass to Mikaela "wow Hendricks..." Jay muttered, she didn't mind too much, after all she doubted anything in the Hospital Wing could kill her if it was watered down like that, this was a school after all.

"Pepperup. I've never tried it, what does it taste like?" Mikaela asked with a smile and Jay tilted her head slightly, trying to get a taste that wasn't just... water flavor.
"Doesn't taste like much" she shrugged, "then again my taste buds for have always been odd, thanks Sunny" the last part she said to herself more quietly, Jay wasn't really that interested in answering questions that involved her family at the moment.

Jay watched as Neko climbed onto Mikaela's shoulder and Nacho curled further into Jay and ended up hiding in her bag amongst her books and pens, he really didn't like Neko at all and Jay wasn't surprised. Usually Nacho was too silly to realize he might be walking into danger but he seemed genuinely scared of Neko.

With a sigh, Jay reached into her bag and pulled out one of her books and muttered in Japanese to Nacho, "you've abandoned me, how could you?" it wasn't as if he could understand her but she liked to talk to him anyways, she couldn't really describe it apart from that talking to him brought her comfort.

She opened the book to the page she had marked and started reading it, she had come across it in a book sale and had quickly discovered it was her favorite book to read, it was an old one called Carmilla, written by a woman in the eighteen hundreds, twenty five years before Dracula. It was a good way to pass History classes if she ran out of things to draw, she must have read it over ten times already just from reading a few chapters every time she had History or a particularly boring Potions lesson.

As Jay finished the page she was reading, Mikaela asked a question. "Do you have, uh... Any plans for Christmas?" Looking up at Mikaela, she tilted her head and frowned slightly. She wasn't really doing anything apart from couch crashing and avoiding Sunny...

Is this an invitation... because if so I would very much accept, I can't keep crashing on the same people's couches

"I mean, apart from avoiding my mum, couch crashing at friend's houses with parents who don't want me there in the slightest because I am the worst influence you can come across? Nope, can't think of anything" she said sarcastically with a slight laugh, even though the situation was far from funny, she was still able to go home but it was awkward and Sunny wouldn't speak to her at all, she wouldn't even come out of her room if Jay was in the kitchen. It was sad really, Jay didn't mind the awkwardness but she didn't think she could take another day in that energy while eating a whole pack of blueberries and an energy drink for breakfast.

For some reason she didn't want to answer any questions but she didn't mind if they were asked, after all she would ask questions if someone said that to her, maybe she would answer Mikaela's questions, if she had any that is.

She remembered Mikaela being a bit avoidant of talking about her holidays and seeming a bit off when they last saw each other, she wondered how her friend was really going. Jay also suspected wasn't entirely normal for Mikaela to blurt out what seemed like an invitation to hang out over the holidays, why she was inviting Jay and not Skylar was unknown to her.

As far as I know at least... it's not like we talk every day...

Jay went back to her book but she couldn't seem to focus on the words flooding the page in front of her, with an annoyed huff she closed the book and dropped it on the side table next to the empty glass and brought her knees up to her chest, resting her chin on them and absentmindedly tapping the bedframe with her hand and humming one of her favorite songs as Nacho gained the confidence to start roaming outside her bag and into the Hospital Wing.

With a grin she muttered again in Japanese "might wanna watch out for the cat." The reason Jay spoke to Nacho in Japanese was because he had been with her while she was learning it and she liked to imagine he could understand it even though she knew he couldn't. While learning that she had discovered that learning languages was pretty fun and she could do it quickly if she had nothing else to do, she just wasn't learning French out of spite to annoy Elliot.

Maybe I could try Greek? Sunny is part Greek I think...

She continued to hum the song as she watched Nacho, making sure Neko didn't quickly jump off Mikaela's shoulder to... attack Nacho? Jay wouldn't know, she wasn't good with cats.